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<blockquote data-quote="Banshee16" data-source="post: 3975421" data-attributes="member: 7883"><p>But is that because of HDDVD and Blu-Ray, or because of the prevalence of downloadable movies via Torrents and such? Tonnes of people I know are getting their movies from illicit channels these days.</p><p></p><p>Same thing with RPG books. I question WotC's assertion of whether the edition change is needed now because the market is saturated, because I know a lot of people still loving 3.0/3.5....it's just that they get most of their books via Torrents and stuff. I know it's not legal, and I don't support it, and frankly, I keep telling them it has a bad effect in terms of not reinforcing companies to create products we like, but they keep doing it. I'm not convinced as to whether a new edition will improve revenues, given the book's likely be ripped within days of being released.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Thanks for the link. I'm no expert on this.....I've just seen a lot of posts about Blu-Ray not being backwards compatible. So I was referencing those.</p><p></p><p>Frankly, the whole idea of a format war is dumb to begin with. I'm not sure why it's needed. If I'm happy with my HDDVD player, and you're happy with your Blu-Ray player, why don't we each just buy disks in the appropriate technology? This whole idea of Warner and Disney and all these companies having exclusivity deals is just dumb.</p><p></p><p>Also, is the Blu-Ray Association still being investigated for anti-trust violations? The Wikipedia entry I saw indicated that there have been investigations into them, since Phillips, Sony, and Panasonic had members on the DVD Forum steering committee, and used their votes to torpedo some of the technology proposals put forward by the group that eventually created HDDVD......before they announced the creation of the Blu-Ray Association. But those references were from 2005, and I have no idea if it went anywhere.</p><p></p><p>Banshee</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Banshee16, post: 3975421, member: 7883"] But is that because of HDDVD and Blu-Ray, or because of the prevalence of downloadable movies via Torrents and such? Tonnes of people I know are getting their movies from illicit channels these days. Same thing with RPG books. I question WotC's assertion of whether the edition change is needed now because the market is saturated, because I know a lot of people still loving 3.0/3.5....it's just that they get most of their books via Torrents and stuff. I know it's not legal, and I don't support it, and frankly, I keep telling them it has a bad effect in terms of not reinforcing companies to create products we like, but they keep doing it. I'm not convinced as to whether a new edition will improve revenues, given the book's likely be ripped within days of being released. Thanks for the link. I'm no expert on this.....I've just seen a lot of posts about Blu-Ray not being backwards compatible. So I was referencing those. Frankly, the whole idea of a format war is dumb to begin with. I'm not sure why it's needed. If I'm happy with my HDDVD player, and you're happy with your Blu-Ray player, why don't we each just buy disks in the appropriate technology? This whole idea of Warner and Disney and all these companies having exclusivity deals is just dumb. Also, is the Blu-Ray Association still being investigated for anti-trust violations? The Wikipedia entry I saw indicated that there have been investigations into them, since Phillips, Sony, and Panasonic had members on the DVD Forum steering committee, and used their votes to torpedo some of the technology proposals put forward by the group that eventually created HDDVD......before they announced the creation of the Blu-Ray Association. But those references were from 2005, and I have no idea if it went anywhere. Banshee [/QUOTE]
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